Chapter 347: Digital Ascension

"I also almost killed Professor McGonagall, and Arthur Weasley... he is Ron's father..."

"They, were once my friends..."

"And I did something that absolutely could never be forgiven."

"I am no longer their friend."

"I betrayed them."

So that's it.

So that's why Lukas felt that she had been treated as a tool. From an objective point of view, letting Lukas deal with the Phoenix Society really seemed to have completely disregarded her feelings.

Murphy frowned. "Sorry, I didn't consider it completely; letting you do this was indeed very inappropriate."

The Phoenix Society had many good hands, and among the masters he could use, Lukas was the most stable. At the same time, she was also the person in charge of Plan B. In the situation at that time, letting Lukas be responsible for annihilating the Phoenix Society was indeed Murphy's best choice.

It is estimated that Lukas herself didn't realize this risk at the time.

Harry, Ron, and others had important significance for Lukas's awakening, so Lukas actually cherished her friendship with them in her heart.

"You don't need to blame yourself too much; killing Sirius was an accident. If you want to find someone responsible for this, it should be me."

"I am the mastermind. Because of my conflict with the Phoenix Society, Sirius died."

Lukas's brow, however, still didn't unfurl.

"Professor, is knowing how to love and understanding others really a good thing?"

"Of course," Murphy said. "Even from the most utilitarian perspective, these can help you better predict and judge the behavior of others. Why do you ask?"

"I often feel exhausted. In the past, I could implement my ideas without any scruples and turn a blind eye to the feelings of others, but now, I seem to be unable to do so; I have become tied up..."

Murphy thought for a moment and said: "We can understand this problem from two aspects, Lukas."

"First, you have just come into contact with this brand-new field, just like adding some new game rules outside the simple rules you are familiar with. You naturally need some time to adapt to it. This is both a normal phenomenon and a necessary path to progress."

"Although the past you could turn a blind eye to the feelings of others, the feelings of others were not non-existent."

"Just like some gullies and obstacles on the road ahead, the past you couldn't see them. Although you could therefore stride forward, you were very likely to trip and suffer a big loss."

"Purity is a beautiful quality, but ignorance should never be advocated."

"Secondly, from another perspective. You have one more standard to measure your own behavior than in the past. Because this standard conforms to people's yearning for beautiful qualities, we can simply call it a moral standard."

"After you have such a standard, you think you should reach that standard and become a better person. But what you are doing now makes you feel that you are still as despicable as in the past."

Lukas looked at Murphy seriously and nodded.

"But Lukas, many things in this world are actually unrelated to morality."

"Killing Sirius was not something you did actively; it had nothing to do with your will. And even if you did it actively, it was not based on any despicable purpose."

"Our conflict with the Phoenix Society lies in our different philosophies, our different perceptions of the same thing. This is a struggle of philosophies arising from philosophical differences and cognitive biases regarding the future expectations and directions. Perhaps a right and wrong can be distinguished, but it cannot be measured by moral standards."

"Moral standards are only suitable for measuring daily, life-oriented scenes, but what we and the Phoenix Society are facing now is a fundamental structural conflict that far exceeds daily life."

"So, you just haven't mastered the application boundary of this standard you just learned; you spread it too widely."

Lukas seemed to understand but also didn't quite understand, but finally nodded gently. "I seem to understand a little, and also seem not to understand, but I feel much better. Thank you, Professor."

"Don't you think I'm lying to you anymore?" Murphy smiled.

Lukas's cheeks were slightly red.

"Even if you are a liar, you are the most powerful liar in the world. Just as you said, people always live in their own world. Even if my life is really just a complete lie, if I can't see through this lie, then what is the difference between it and reality?"

"So, Professor, if you are really deceiving me, then I hope you can let this lie continue until my last moment."

Murphy frowned.

That's not right; what I meant was to let you master self-initiative.

But how did it get to this point, with a yandere flavor?

What's wrong with this girl?

"Professor, let's start the transfer."

Fine, if we keep chatting, the Holy Mother will really escape.

Murphy pressed down the thought of curing the other party's mental illness and focused on the matter at hand.

But he actually didn't have much to do; the Horcrux transfer was basically completed by Lukas herself, and Murphy just reminded her of the most critical hardware location.

"Bring the death row prisoner here..." Murphy said.

"No need, Professor," Lukas smiled. "Killing is just to shake one's own soul; Sirius is enough."

"Then, see you later, Professor."

Murphy nodded. "Be careful."

"Okay."

Lukas drew her wand and chanted a long spell.

The creation of a Horcrux is also a magic ritual; killing, chanting, and objects are all elements of the ritual. Therefore, Voldemort would choose objects with special significance to himself to make into Horcruxes.

After a long recitation, she pointed the magic spell at her chest, and then her body suddenly softened.

Murphy reached out to support her, not too worried; this was an inevitable process.

Lukas's soul fragment still remained in the Horcrux, so the Horcrux was her main body. Her body was actually just a magic power driven by the Horcrux or a shell for spiritual residence, so once something happened to the Horcrux, she would "drop offline."

The indicator lights began to flash rapidly, and at the same time, countless fans increased their power and ran desperately. The noise in the machine room instantly rose by more than ten decibels, and the power consumption of the entire machine room instantly increased several times.

Countless characters flashed frequently on a screen in front of Murphy, sometimes a whole line of programming language, but more often, they were meaningless garbled codes.

The process of Horcrux transfer naturally involves a large amount of magic flow, and these lead to errors in precision computing units.

If this supercomputer were used for addition calculations now, in ten thousand one-plus-one operations, there would definitely be dozens or hundreds of times that it wouldn't equal 2.

"Bang!" A large number of GPU chips in a cabinet overloaded and burned the circuit, and a burnt smell came over.

The huge precision air conditioner ran at full load, but the cold air blown out turned into hot air after a few breaths.

Damn, should have used a water-cooling system.

Or throw the next supercomputing center to Siberia.

Just as these thoughts were turning in his mind, suddenly, the shrill humming of the fans stopped.

The entire machine room went dark in an instant.

Immediately after, a line of text appeared on the screen.

"I succeeded! ヾ(≧▽≦*)o"

Murphy frowned. He looked down, and sure enough, Lukas had woken up, but she was still her usual indifferent self, her eyes looking at him calmly, seemingly without any waves.

No... big sister, you are excitedly using emoticons, how can you still look so calm.

Mood and expression are managed separately, right.

I have a feeling this apprentice is even more seriously ill.

(End of Chapter) ===== CHAPTER 348 =====